Romney on the numbers

By Ben Smith

06/03/11 09:33 AM EDT

He pounces on a bad jobs report:

“Today’s unemployment numbers show that we are going backwards, and that is the wrong direction for America. President Obama’s policies made the recession worse and as a result more people are out of work. These unemployment numbers should not be viewed as just statistics – these are real families facing significant economic peril because President Obama has failed to pull us out of this economic downturn. Americans deserve a president who will make job creation his number one priority.”

The report Matt McDonald notes, "was bad across the board, missing the benchmark for the President to get to eight percent unemployment by Election Day, missing most analyst expectations, and putting an exclamation point on a week of bad economic numbers."